Self-Sufficiency
“The fall arises out of man’s free decision to reject personal communion with God and restrict himself to the autonomy and...
Sacrifice
“In the Christian (or post-Christian) West, declaring death in battle to be a sacrifice necessarily links it to Christ’s archetypical...
Jesus Prayer
“The Jesus Prayer – ‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner’ - is an ancient meditative prayer that is meant to draw...
Unity
“Christ brings to an end all the divisions which have separated humans…Christ brings together all things (symbol [symbolos]) bringing to...
Heart (Good and Bad)
“Real life is lived in the depths of our heart, as is our hell and our paradise. That is where the battle is fought between our good and...
Perfect Love
“God, the Holy Trinity, is perfect love. As Gregory of Nyssa observes, the Holy Trinity “is a sort of continuous and indivisible...
Love (and to be Loved)
“If there is one resilient and God given aspect of us that has remained intact throughout history and time, it is our innate desire to...
Failure
“…we see in Paul’s words, “Scripture confined all under sin” (Galatians 3:22). The Greek word “confined” comes from the root “to shut up...
Objectifying People
“The normal mode of “seeing” in our daily world can be called “objective.” We see things as objects, and nothing more. Indeed, we see...
Blasphemy
“Jesus presents a serious logical dilemma for his adversaries – if my miracles are a sign of God’s presence, then why do you not believe?...